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******   This Document Explains the Files Provided For Replication
          purposes  for RESTAT Article "Government Oversight of Public
          Universities ..." by A. Abigail Payne and Joanne Roberts,
	  published in 92(1):207-212
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              IMPORTANT NOTE
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Some of the data collected for this paper are proprietary and are not
freely available.  The user of the data must pay a license fee for
access to the data. For these reasons, for the purposes of Tables 2
and 3 we have encrypted the state and university identification
measures.

IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE DATA HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FOR
REPLICATION PURPOSES ONLY!  THE DATA SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR NEW OR
ORIGINAL RESEARCH.



Data File 1:  payne_roberts_table1.dta
   This is a stata data set that contains the measures needed to
   create Table 1

Data File 2: payne_roberts_table2.dta
   This is a stata data set that contains the measures needed to
   create Tables 2 and 3

Payne_Roberts_Restat_Analysis.do
   This is the program that may be run to replicate Tables 1-3 in the
   paper


Payne_Roberst_Restate_Analysis.log
   This is the log file that is created when one runs the above do
   file.


Please feel free to contact the authors if more information is needed
about the data used and/or the analysis.

